Startup City: Eucalyptus Systems Readies Enterprise Add-Ons – InformationWeek Eucalyptus makes it possible to manage existing data center resources–servers, storage, networking–as unified resources that can be doled out through self-service provisioning by developers, end users, and business units. Eucalyptus has…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 8
Intuit Helps Small Business Capture a ‘Green Snapshot’ – GreenBiz.com Cooler’s database became the engine for Snapshot. As Shah explains: “Snapshot reads your Quickbook data, pulls every dollar the business has spent over the past twelve months, and works with…
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 5
Green servers cropping up all over – InfoWorld The new HP ProLiant machines, for example, come equipped with a new feature that the company dubs “sea of sensors”: 32 smart sensors that automatically monitor the heat created by the server…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 4
Verizon’s Public Cloud Aimed at Enterprise – PC World Customers using CaaS can manage their service through a console that allows them to provision resources as they wish, which also means if they decommission a resource, they will automatically stop…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 3
The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization – Part 2 – Virtualization.info Make sure there is a standard and consistent model for how these metrics are obtained. For example, if metrics are captured 7 days a week and 24 hours a…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 2
Thomson Reuters reduces storage sprawl to save money, increase quality 2009 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards: Christopher Crowhurst – InfoWorld The server virtualization — paid for by the storage optimization savings — did more than consolidate servers. After five months,…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 28
Security and regulatory concerns slow some server virtualization efforts – Network World There’s awe in the instantaneous speed that VMware offers in set up and tear down of VMs but worry about potential abuse of that power, too, deliberate or…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 27
Virtualizing the server is great, but what about network I/O virtualization? – InfoWorld InfoWorld: For those of us who are new to this, tell us what are the current approaches to performing network I/O virtualization? Neugebauer: Methods traditionally include using…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 26
Hints of a New Market for Cheap, Power-Sipping Servers – Digits – WSJ Blogs Super Micro, which is based in Milpitas, Calif., thinks its Atom-based systems will mainly be used by companies that want to package just a little…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, May 22
Clean Energy and Intellectual Property – Green Inc. – The New York Times On Wednesday, that group and representatives of General Electric, Microsoft and Sunrise Solar gathered in Washington to launch the Innovation, Development & Employment Alliance, or I.D.E.A. The…
